THE National Film and Sound Archive’s Spring School Holiday Program is in full swing. It’s been inspired by its latest exhibition, “Collective Passions: the art of the festival poster.” Here are some highlights: Creation Station: If […]

IF present day Federal politics is a bit too grim and confrontational for you, the Canberra Theatre Centre has the perfect antidote in the stage version of “Yes, Prime Minister” coming here from March 21-24 […]

IF your only familiarity with “Grease” is the popular film, then this stripped-back production from Free Rain Theatre may provide some surprises, including how well it utilises the tiny Tuggeranong Arts Centre stage. Director Fiona […]

WHAT a great show! I have nothing but superlatives for every aspect of this raunchy, funny, emotive and clever musical where a cast of mainly puppets are brought to almost unnerving real life to tell […]

Said to be Australia’s most-performed play, “Dimboola” is now being staged by The National University Theatre Society (NUTS) in a dinner show at Teatro Vivaldi. If you don’t know the play, the Delaney and the McAdam […]

Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews the new Pura Vida festival that’s destined to set the city swinging WHEN you’re the lead vocalist and guitarist in a band called Desorden Publico (Public Disorder) whose most recent […]

Arts in the city • HAPPY birthdays to Canberra Philharmonic Society, “Philo”, which celebrated its 60th at the Courtyard Studio on September 11 and to Canberra’s Austrian Choir, which marks its 30th with a celebratory […]

FORMER Canberra director Iain Sinclair has created a compelling production of “Blood Wedding” by Federico García Lorca, which I caught at the closing show at Sydney’s Wharf Theatre on Sunday. Now seven years away […]

WINNERS of Canberra’s Short+Sweet festival have been announced. The festival, considered “the biggest little play festival in the world”, included a selection of 10-minute plays written, directed and acted by local performers. Canberra’s festival ran […]

IT’S springtime and music will be blossoming for the three-day Bloom Music Festival at the Ainslie Arts Centre in the former Ainslie Public School, in Elouera Street, Braddon. It has become Canberra’s music hub, say […]

Arts in the city • CAROLINE Stacey is working on a new play at The Street by Alana Valentine called “MP”. Stars are cabaret diva Geraldine Turner, Stephen Barker, Andrea Close, Leah Baulch and Soren […]

A CANBERRA parent will have the opportunity to become the fifth Wiggle as part of their Big Birthday celebrations. The competition will seek one parent in every city the tour visits to become a fifth […]

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A GUNGAHLIN mother, Jennifer Thew, died on Saturday (September 23) due to respiratory complications from influenza. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Meegan Fitzharris says Ms Thew had been in the care of Calvary Public Hospital prior to […]

THE government has issued another warning to gas producers but held off pulling its export control trigger, despite two new reports warning of potential severe local supply shortages. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and […]

GRASS surface circles, picnic tables and umbrellas will be built in Garema Place after a public vote declared “Grounds of Garema” as the winner of the ACT’s inaugural micro parks competition. The design, by Andrew, Louise […]

A BELCONNEN man, 21, and a Coombs woman, 21, have been arrested for stealing a car from a Curtin address and then ramming it into a police vehicle while attempting to escape. After receiving reports […]